...Or Stay Tuned is the fourth album by the People Under the Stairs and their final release on Om Records until 2009's Carried Away. The group's shortest album (clocking in at only 43 minutes), it was originally marketed as an EP release and called a "mini-album" in the liner notes. In the years since the album's release, the group has counted it among their main album catalog, as it was released on double-vinyl and meets the criteria for being full-length. The album also produced one single, "Yield".

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Contractually, People Under The Stairs had one more album to complete with Om. After receiving a funding advance for the final album with Om, Thes One purchased a Neve 5116/32 mixing console, and in the space of a couple weeks in June, the group finished recording several tracks. After looking through their outtakes from the previous album, O.S.T., People Under The Stairs realized that they had enough unheard material (including the newly created tracks) to issue another release.[2]

The final album contained five songs recorded as early as 2001, plus six new tracks. The only previously-released track on the album was a remix of "O.S.T. (Original Soundtrack)". Other "remixes" for the album included a very-short, a cappella rendition of a piece of "San Francisco Knights" and a completely re-imagined version of "The L.A. Song" which presented a much more serious and tragic view of the city.

Much like "Acid Raindrops" on their previous album, O.S.T., the song "Outrun" proved to be a hit with fans, with its Wesley Willis-tribute chorus and record scratching by Double K.[3]

Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars, complimented PUTS' D.I.Y. attitude, and called ...Or Stay Tuned "highly recommended".[1] The tracks "Drumbox", "OST Remix" and "Outrun" were also selected to appear in the ESPN NFL 2K5 video game as optional menu and stadium music.

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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves

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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital

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Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. Hip hops early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. The Sugarhill Gangs 1979 song Rappers Delight is widely regarded to be the first hip hop record to gain popularity in the mainstream. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles, prior to the 1980s, hip hop music was largely confined within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began to spread to scenes in dozens of countries. New school hip hop was the wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D. M. C. The Golden age hip hop period was a period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Notable artists from this era include the Juice Crew, Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One, EPMD, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MCs, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that often focuses on the violent lifestyles, in the West Coast hip hop style, G-funk dominated mainstream hip hop for several years during the 1990s. I. G. In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap, at the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated into other genres of popular music, examples being Neo soul and nu metal. Hip hop became a pop music genre in the mid-1990s. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop, the United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane, during the mid-2000s, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West. Creation of the hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap. Cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into a part of his stage performance, the first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Neve Electronics
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Neve Electronics was a manufacturer of music recording and broadcast mixing consoles and hardware. It was founded in 1961 by Rupert Neve, the man credited with creating the modern mixing console, Rupert Neve formed Neve Electronics in 1961. The company specialised in producing professional audio equipment and mixing consoles, the products used high-quality components and utilized Class-A circuit designs. In 1964 the company moved to Cambridgeshire and that year Neve Electronics built one of the first transistor-based mixing consoles for Philips Records Studios in London. The company moved to a factory in Melbourn, near Cambridge where in 1968 they designed the 2254 compressor limiter for ABC Weekend Television in the UK. It was also in 1968 that Neve Electronics began to distribute their products in North America, Vanguard Records, of New York City, was the first American recording studio to take possession of the Neve console in October,1968. In 1970 Rupert Neve designed the 1073 module for the new A88 mixing console, during the seventies Neve Electronics produced a whole series of mixing consoles for both broadcast and recording studios. In 1973 the 8048 console was produced, this included the newer 1081 microphone/line preamplifier and equaliser, in the same year Rupert Neve sold Neve Electronics to the Bonochord Group. He continued working alongside Neve Electronics until 1975 when he left altogether, in 1977 Neve Electronics began using digital technology with the introduction of their Necam system. Necam stood for Neve Computer Assisted Mixdown, the first Necam system was installed at Air Studios in London. In 1979 the 8108 console was produced using analog and digital technology. The console had assignable controls and memory mixing faders, in the eighties there were concerns about Neve Electronics financial situation. This was partly due to their ambitious investment into research and development of such as the DSP console. Another product that was included in the research and development programme was a digitally controlled routing system. The equaliser has a fixed 12kHz high frequency band and switchable low and mid range bands with cut, there is also a passive third-order high pass filter. Two switches were also fitted on the front panel for equaliser bypass. The 1073 module was designed to be part of the 80 series Neve console and it was never intended for use as a stand alone module. It is now regarded as a desert island preamp by many recording engineers, the sound is described as very big, fat, and colored

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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s

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Carried Away (People Under the Stairs album)
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Carried Away is the seventh album by the People Under the Stairs. The group chose to release the album on the independent label, Om Records, the album is a mixture of the Golden age hip hop sound of their earlier Om releases, and a continuation of the more expansive sample-sourcing of their last two albums. Carried Away produced three singles and two videos, and it continued the tradition of a steady stream of positive reviews for the group. In the first months of 2009, the group toured constantly to support their latest release, Om also offered the group extra incentives, including obtaining licensing from Colt 45 to use their branding and Billy Dee Williams image on PUTS first 7-inch single from the new album, Beer. PUTS also teamed with the Vans shoe company to produce a limited-edition skate deck, while the group has always been known for its shout-outs of other musicians from a large array of artists across several genres, this album produced some of its most direct homages yet. Finally, the song Creepshow uses a phone call sample made famous by The Pharcyde in their song 4 Better Or 4 Worse. The album also includes the array of People Under The Stairs themed tracks, odes to L. A. food and alcohol, marijuana, classic hip hop. The packaging for Carried Away included a board game. Vinyl copies of the included two bonus tracks, the skit Lutherfest and All Good Things. Om also offered a deluxe preorder that included both formats of the album, the deck and the Beer single. The album also debuted on Billboards Heatseeker Chart at #23, the Onion AV club review, in a positive review, noted that Carried Away proves that Thes One and Double K will be pumping out sunny, laid-back party anthems long after the Internet memes grow stale. All songs written by Christopher Thes One Portugal and Michael Double K Turner

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Extended play
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An extended play is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally do not contain as many tracks as albums, and are considered less expensive, an EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, EPs—originally extended-play single releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk, in the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks. EPs were released in various sizes in different eras, the earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were vertically cut 78 rpm discs known as 2-in-1 records. These had finer than usual grooves, like Edison Disc Records, by 1949, when the 45 rpm single and 33 1⁄3 rpm LP were competing formats, seven-inch 45 rpm singles had a maximum playing time of only about four minutes per side. Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia, RCA Victor introduced Extended Play 45s during 1952. Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the levels and sound compression optionally. These were usually 10-inch LPs split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either separately or together in gatefold covers. This practice became less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs. Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were distributed as EP albums—notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954. These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, in the 1990s, they began appearing on compact discs. During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies and these usually featured the original casts of actors and actresses. Each album contained two seven-inch records, plus an illustrated booklet containing the text of the recording, so that children could follow along by reading. Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and what was then a recent release, because of the popularity of 7 and other formats, SP records became less popular and the production of SPs in Japan was suspended in 1963. In the 1950s and 1960s, EPs were usually compilations of singles or album samplers and were played at 45 rpm on seven-inch discs. Record Retailer printed the first EP chart in 1960, the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc and Music Echo and the Record Mirror continued to list EPs on their respective singles charts. The Beatles Twist and Shout outsold most singles for some weeks in 1963, when the BBC and Record Retailer commissioned the British Market Research Bureau to compile a chart it was restricted to singles and EPs disappeared from the listings. In the Philippines, seven-inch EPs marketed as mini-LPs were introduced in 1970, with tracks selected from an album and this mini-LP format also became popular in America in the early 1970s for promotional releases, and also for use in jukeboxes

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People Under the Stairs
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People Under the Stairs are an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1997. Since their inception, the group has consisted solely of Christopher Portugal and Michael Turner, and the group employs a DIY work ethic of sampling, MCing, DJing, despite difficulties achieving mainstream or chart successes, the group has shunned critiques that they are an underground group. While still attending school in Mid-City Los Angeles, group members Thes One and Double K were independently sampling music, creating beat tapes. Thes One attended Loyola High and was making a name for himself through his detailed production work and his collaboration with a local, short-lived hip-hop group. Meanwhile, Double K attended Hamilton High and was a part of the Log Cabin Crew, despite never having met, Thes One and Double K still developed an unseen rivalry through gossip spread by their friends, and the two were wary of a confrontation. Eventually, they met while looking for sample material in Martins. The two were impressed by each work, and formed an immediate friendship, characterized by an intense focus on the production of music. For the first few months after the group met, Thes One, however, the duo were wary of rappers and backpackers who were more interested in the lyrical side of hip hop and did not understand or have an interest in the music they were creating. Eventually, Thes One and Double K made the decision to rap over their own out of a desire to keep everything self-contained. The group decided to use the name People Under the Stairs because they felt it represented their music aesthetic, two myths regarding the groups origins continue to plague the band on a constant basis. The first is that fans believe the name to have originated from the 1991 Wes Craven movie. While the duo have seen the movie and enjoy it, they were not even aware of it when conceiving the group. Nearly 500 copies were pressed, although many copies omitted a b-side, Live At The Fishbucket, Pt.1, when the record stamper broke half-way through, and a different master had to be used. Just weeks after the 12-inch was released, a portion of the singles were bought by the shopkeeper of the Mr. Bongo record shop. When the owner played the single in the store, it out within 7 minutes. In the meantime, the group had already released their first album. Although they were reluctant to create a full-album, the group decided to take the chance. The album was recorded on a simple 8-track ADAT digital recorder, mostly at Thes Ones home in Los Angeles, and Thes One and Double K produced and engineered the album entirely by themselves

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Om Records
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Om Records is a US-based record label, established in 1995, which releases electronic music, dance music, and hip hop. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Chris Smith, Om Records releases both artist albums and various compilations. Some of the most notable compilations include Om Lounge and the Mushroom Jazz series, past artists have included Kaskade, Wolfgang Gartner, Ladybug Mecca, Juan Atkins and Naked Music NYC. Om Records also has a roster of sub labels and affiliated labels, childs Play was started in late 2009 with the first release from Amp Live featuring Trackademicks called Gary is A Robot. The label would go on to full album and single releases from the likes of Amp Live, Greenskeepers, Bassnectar. The label has released a number of 12 vinyl singles from Digable Planets Ladybug Mecca featuring Kenny Dope and Raheem DeVaughn, Zion I & The Grouch. Lyrics Born, Strange Fruit Project Feat, erykah Badu, Zeph & Azeem featuring hip hop legends Marley Marl and Carl G. and E Da Boss featuring Gift of Gab and Lateef The Truth Speaker. Started in early 2010 as a house label, Smoke N Mirrors has featured singles release from Hot Toddy, Wagon Cookin, Mike Monday, Shiny Objects. In September 2010, Smoke N Mirrors released the first full length artist album from Crazy P member Hot Toddy, the original hip hop imprint created by Om back in 1997 featured a series of compilations and 12 singles. Colorforms is a 12 vinyl singles label started by Om for breaks, turntablism, the label featured 12s released from Bassnectar, Ming & FS, Soulstice, and more. The art for the jackets were designed by urban street artist David P. Flores, the following is a partial list of artists on Om Records

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Thes One
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Christopher Cesar Portugal, best known as Thes One, is one half of hip hop duo People Under The Stairs, serving as a vocalist/MC, producer, engineer and business manager. As a business manager, he has coordinated and managed 21+ successful world tours for People Under The Stairs and he also designs and builds recording studios and custom gear. His musical aliases include Lord Radio, born Christopher Cesar Portugal in Torrance, California to an American mother and immigrant Peruvian father, Thes One grew up in San Pedro, California. He was first introduced to hip hop at Peck Park childcare, while attending high school in Los Angeles, Thes One met Michael Turner, and the two began working together as what would soon become People Under The Stairs. While there, he received the Seibert Fellowship for poetry, acceptance to the Golden Key Honors Society and that year they also took a trip to the Bay Area, and upon returning, wrote and recorded “San Francisco Knights”, one of the group’s most popular songs to date. In the spring of 1998, months before graduating and using his student loan funding, in late summer 1998, the group independently released their first album entitled The Next Step, which he produced and engineered in its entirety. Chris Smith contacted Thes One initially for one song for their compilation series Deep Concentration and Mushroom Jazz, the deal was signed in 1999 and P. U. T. S. Left for their first world tour in August 1999, initially as support for the Deep Concentration project, the second PUTS album, Question In The Form Of An Answer, was released in June 2000. The album was acclaimed for its eclectic and diverse range of beats rooted in jazz and Psychedelic rock. Continued with another set of tours to support the record. In between managing tours and performing, Thes One began producing and engineering the third People Under The Stairs album, which was released in June 2002 as O. S. T. As well as producing People Under The Stairs albums, Thes One completed remixes for artists as well as library music for a few television pilots which were not picked up. 2002 also saw PUTS embark on their first national US tour as support for Deltron 3030, the group continued to tour through the 2004 release of their Or Stay Tuned album, their final release on San Francisco-based Om Records. The album was labeled an EP due to contractual issues but was considered by many, including the group, the group continued to tour the globe, spending, at times,7 to 8 months of the year on the road. In April 2004, Thes One was approached by friend Chikara Kurahashi and was asked to co-found and help start a record using his connections. He agreed, and to help get the label off of the ground, turned over a series of 12 projects and one album, Lifestyle Marketing, as well as the concept for the Bloquera project. The first twelve-inch release on the newly formed Tres Records imprint was Thes One’s Noonen 12, Thes One also brought artists Lightheaded and DJ Alibi to the Tres Roster. In May 2004 he coordinated the Bloquera project, a trip to southern-most Baja California to record an EP, following this trip he began executive producing and mixing the Fly School Reunion album for Tres Artists Giant Panda

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O.S.T. (album)
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O. S. T. is the third album by the People Under the Stairs. The album was produced in Thes Ones home entirely by the duo. The album produced three singles, including Acid Raindrops, one of the groups most successful songs and a constant staple at live shows, during 2001, while on tour in Europe, Thes One and Double K had been utilizing their tour income and their Question. Album profits to steadily amass a large supply of vinyl, the group would purchase rare and interesting records at local record stores in each city they would pass through, even going to far as to spend over $2,000 at a store in Stockholm, Sweden. Many of these records would form the basis for the used in O. S. T. In between tour dates, Thes One and Double K returned to Thes Ones home in Los Angeles, using the samples and the insight they had gained from touring, Thes One and Double K began piecing together their third album. Proved to be more complex than the groups first albums, using a larger variety of samples. For example, the track Montego Bay used over 20 minuscule sections of music from Jamaican tourist souvenir records, cut, the group also used live instrumentation for the first time on a release by having musician and producer Headnodic play electric bass on the album-ending The Breakdown. The album contains several dedications, both positive and negative, the Suite For Beaver was created, in true jazz ode style, as a dedication to Willie Hale, whose album Party Down was the source of the base samples in the Suite. Thes One has stated that the album and the party vibe theme hold a central place in the albums creation. The song Tales of Kidd Drunkadelic is also a reference to the album Tales of Kidd Funkadelic by Funkadelic, one of Double Ks favorite groups. After the release of O. S. T. came out, People Under the Stairs sent a copy of the album to Wang. Wang eventually spoke with Thes One and learned the source of the anger. The track The Dig also apparently seemed to contain a reference to Madlib in the lyrics fuck a loop digger in my city, man, just stay home. Upon its release, the received positive reviews and significantly more attention than the groups two previous albums. Allmusic named O. S. T. as one of their picks and called it one fun and funky record. Pitchfork Media felt that the side of the album lacked depth, yet still called the album a testament to the enduring strength of straight-up. Later in 2003, a controversy occurred when the primary music sample for Acid Raindrops was found to have also been used on a song, What You Say